Angela Carter Angela Carter was born in Eastbourne, Sussex, the daughter of a journalist. Shewas removed by her grandmother to South Yorkshire during the war years. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/acarter.htm

Extractions: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback Angela (Olive) Carter (1940-1992) English short story writer, novelist, journalist, dramatist and critic. Carter was a notable exponent of magic realism , who added into it Gothic themes, violence, and eroticism. Carter utilized throughout her career the language and characteristic motifs of the fantasy genre. "A good writer can make you believe time stands still," she once said. Her work represents a successful combination of post-modern literary theories and feminist politics. Carter died in 1992 at the age of fifty-one. "-Then the city vanished; it ceased, almost immediately, to be a magic and appalling place. I woke up one morning and found it had become a home. Though I still turn up my coat collar in a lonely way and am always looking at myself in mirrors, they're only habits and give no clue at all to my character, whatever that is. The most difficult performance in the world is acting naturally, isn't it? Everything else is artful." (from 'Flesh and the Mirror' in Fireworks Angela Carter was born in Eastbourne, Sussex, the daughter of a journalist. She was removed by her grandmother to South Yorkshire during the war years. After rejoining her mother she suffered from anorexia. At 20 she married. Before starting her English studies at the University of Bristol, Carter worked for the

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Angela Carter Angela Carter was born in 1940 in the south of England. She relationships.Works Cited. Carter, Angela. Fat Is Ugly. Shaking a Leg, 5660. -. http://sites.unc.edu/lorenar/engl23e/handouts/angela_carter.htm

Extractions: Angela Carter was born in 1940 in the south of England. She says in one autobiographical writing that her mother learned she was carrying her the day England declared war on Germany, making for "a distressing and agitated pregnancy" ("Mother Lode" 3). Her family was relocated to Eastbourne during the blitz, and Carter was born during the fall of Dunkirk. When southern England proved no safer than London, Carter was sent to live with her maternal grandmother in the mining country of Yorkshire in northern England. She describes her grandmother as modeling a kind of incipient feminism: She came from a community where women rule the roost and she effortlessly imparted a sense of my sex's ascendancy in the scheme of things, every word and gesture of hers displayed a natural dominance, a native savagery, and I am very grateful for all that, now, although the core of steel was a bit inconvenient when I was looking for boyfriends in the south in the late fifties, when girls were supposed to be as soft and as pink as a nursuree. ("Mother Lode" 6) Carter grew up during the lean days of post-war shortages. As a young adult, she suffered from anorexia. (She comments on anorexia in her short review "Fat is Ugly"). Her father was a journalist, and Carter studied English at the University of Bristol. Although she eventually became a journalist, fiction writer, and teacher, she married young in an effort to rebel against her parents' expectations for her to have a profession.

Angela Carter's Nights At The Circus Exploration of the role of narrative techniques in Nights at the Circus. By Brian Finney.Category Arts Literature Authors C Carter, AngelaTall Tales and Brief Lives Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus. carter angela.American Ghosts and Old World Wonders. London Vintage, 1993. . http://www.csulb.edu/~bhfinney/AngelaCarter.html

Extractions: Tall Tales and Brief Lives: Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus Nights at the Circus Nights at the Circus takes as its subject the hypnotic power of narrative, the ways in which we construct ourselves and our world by narrative means, the materiality of fiction and the fictionality of the material world, and the contract between writer and reader that, according to Carter, invites the reader at the end of this book "to take one further step into the fictionality of the narrative, instead of coming out of it and looking at it as though it were an artefact" (Haffenden 91). It is not just Fevvers who triumphs at having fooled Walser. It is Carter gloating over having fooled the reader into following her own narrative to this end point - and beyond. What this suggests is that this entire novel operates in an important way as a form of metanarrative: one of its main concerns is with the potentialities and limits of the act of narration. On reflection one remembers that many of Carter's other works of fiction begin by making the narrative act their subject. The "Introduction" to The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972) opens with "I remember everything" (11). Four pages later Chapter 1 opens: "I cannot remember exactly how it began" (15). Memory is part of the bewilderingly contradictory nature of the art of narration. "Flesh and the Mirror," a story collected in

Extractions: Angela studied classical piano and theory at the Victoria Conservatory from 1968, completing the Camosun College/Victoria Conservatory piano teacher training program in 1982; and further studies include jazz piano and vocal training. From 1984 to 1985 Angela enjoyed playing boogie-woogie and rock and roll for the original Doc and the Doo-Wops. Musical theatre credits include "Cabaret" with the Victoria Operatic Society in 1990, "Godspell", "Charlotte's Web", "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", "Cinderella" and "Winnie the Pooh" with Four Seasons Musical Theatre. In 1992 Angela formed the trio Brainchild playing rock, blues, jazz and country gigs up and down Vancouver Island. Brainchild formed the stage band for the 1993 Four Seasons production of "Threepenny Opera" and "Chicago". Angela currently teaches piano, keyboard and vocal coaching in Greater Victoria and looks forward to future challenges with String of Pearls.

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Extractions: Welcome to the Angela Carter Unofficial Web Site Everything you ever wanted to know about the British author (1940-1992) Enter This web site was created by Andrew Milne and last update was on Sunday October 27th 2002 This site was first created in July 2000. From this date until March 2002 there were over 11, 000 visitors Number of visitors since 5th March 2002

Extractions: Angela Carter was, without question, a 20th Century original. No matter what one thinks of her writing, no one can argue that she was ever less than unique. Magic Realism, Surrealism, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Gothic, Feminism, Postmodernism all of these categories apply, and yet all are one-dimensional in their application to Carter; none of them, with the possible exception of Surrealism, encompass the full spectrum of her accomplishments. Carter's maiden name was Stalker, perhaps more fitting than the surname of her first husband, which she retained as her own. The daughter of socialists, Carter grew up in South London. All of her immediate female relatives were strong women of striking candor and pragmatism. And yet, paradoxically, Carter fought to overcome teenage anorexia caused by low self-esteem. Well-off but pro-active, Carter anguished over the closing of mines and the breaking of mining strikes in the 1960s, and over the failures of the socialist revolution in general.(1) While a student at Bristol College, Carter hung out in sidewalk cafes and at smoky backroom poetry readings. In addition to absorbing the bohemian nightlife, Carter studied psychology and anthropology. She also developed a strong liking for Rimbaud and Racine, and for French literature in general.